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From Physical to Digital Distribution
Content of all type is moving from physical to digital distribution, so says Pietro Macchiarella, Research Analyst with Parks Associates. Macchiarella adds that content protection and the rich data that digital distribution provides are common discussion points regardless of content type (e.g. video, music, gaming). He also provides his views of the recent E3 gaming conference.…
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Cloud-Based Local Content
Using the cloud to deliver local, linear and on-demand content is what Jesse Lerman of TelVue demonstrates in this brief video interview at the 2012 OTTCON (Over the Top Conference) in Santa Clara, CA. TelVue has taken their base product, which is deployed in hundreds of headends and local access channel origination stations, and moved…
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Original Content
The announcement of the Starz, LLC partnership with the BBC to co-produce content for their respective networks was hinted at in this interview with John Penney, EVP of strategy and business development, of Starz at the 2011 Connections™ conference. He was a keynote speaker at Connections™ and one of the things he spoke of is…
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GigE, LTE and Ala Carte – Elements of a New Rural Vermont Telecom Network
No one technology will solve the challenges of bringing affordable broadband to rural areas. In this video interview, Dr. J. Michele Guite of Vermont Telephone discusses their efforts to combine LTE wireless technology with GigE fiber backbones to connect 114k rural Vermont households to the Internet at broadband speeds. This interview took place at the…
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3D Shows Eyes at LC Workshop
3D made a sneak preview at this Local Content Workshop on not busting the budget. This video has excerpts from two 1 hour sessions on local content which included our first peek into 3D editing with a video from Sony Media Software, and 3D glasses supplied by Scott Myer of Innovative Systems. The sessions included…
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Local Content – Putting Smiles on Customers’ Faces
Local content as a way to serve the community was a common theme of a panel I moderated at the 2010 Broadband Properties Summit. As expected, Cullen McCarty of Smithville Telephone and Gary Evans of HBC provided an excellent overview of how they are helping their communities by serving up content about and by the…